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Monday September 26, 2005
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12:15 pm
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12:30 pm
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- Examine lost productive time and cost due to pain in the workforce across the United States
- How can employers address pain effectively in the work place?
- What initiatives on pain are coming from the government?
- What programs exist to keep pain patients working?
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Walter “Buzz” Stewart MD, MPH
Director
Center for Health Research & Rural Advocacy
Geisinger Health System
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Lee S. Glass MD
Associate Medical Director
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
Editor, Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelies
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Immediate Past Chair, Guidelines Committee
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Robert D. Kerns Ph.D.
Chief, Psychology Service
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
National Director for Pain Management
VA Central Office
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John H. Klippel MD
Chief Executive Officer
Arthritis Foundation
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Mark B. McClellan MD, PhD
Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
 View Biography
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Lawrence A. Tabak D.D.S., Ph.D.
Director
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
National Institutes of Health
Co-Chair,
NIH Pain Consortium
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1:30 pm
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- Examine how a multi-disciplinary pain program addresses back pain treatment
- Discuss how surgical approaches confront back pain
- Compare and contrast outcomes, cost, quality of life
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Jacob Rosenberg MD
Medical Director
Integrated Pain Management, Inc.
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3:00 pm
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- Describe future challenges in work and pain medical disability
- Outline the relationship between the medical absence patterns and the health care utilization patterns of a working population
- Assess how a short term disability carrier can help an employer optimize health and productivity of a population with chronic pain
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Ronald Leopold M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H.
Vice President, National Medical Director
MetLife Disability
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4:00 pm
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- Discuss reasons why employees are absent due to pain
- What are the obstacles employers and employees face in returning to work?
- What is the effectiveness of return to work?
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5:00 pm
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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